EARLY DAYS AT COUNCIL BLUFFS.
Washington. 1916. 96pp. Maps. Illus. Cloth. Some pencil underscoring, contemporary inscription in pencil dated 1925 on titlepage, else very good. Includes material on the Pottawattamie Indians and the Mormons.
Washington. 1916. 96pp. Maps. Illus. Cloth. Some pencil underscoring, contemporary inscription in pencil dated 1925 on titlepage, else very good. Includes material on the Pottawattamie Indians and the Mormons.
Blairstown, N.J. 1865. 8pp. Stitched as issued. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good plus. Untrimmed and unopened. In a red half morocco slipcase, spine gilt. Report by the president of the Cedar Rapids & Missouri River Railroad Company. John Blair was one of the most successful railroad investors of the.....
Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, [ca. 1890]. 248,[4]pp. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Front cover detached and heavily chipped. Spine and rear cover chipped. Titlepage detached, first few leaves chipped. Fair. A later printing of one of the rarest of outlaw narratives, first printed in Chicago in 1850. The author describes the.....
[New York. ca. 1840]. Watercolor and ink, 14 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches, matted. Minor foxing. Very good. This portrait of the famous chief, Mah-to-toh-pa, was executed by New York artist Nicolino Calyo, based upon the work of George Catlin. Calyo was born in Italy and came to America in.....
[London]: W.S. Johnson, "Nassau Steam Press," [1844]. Small printed broadsheet, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Pencil annotation on recto: "Septr 11th 44." Old folds, slight tear at right edge center fold. Near fine. Rare handbill advertising the public appearance of "fourteen Ioway Indians" as part of George Catlin's traveling.....
Washington, D.C. War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1861-1862. Three volumes, with over 300 individual imprints. 12mo. Uniformly bound in contemporary three-quarter roan and marbled boards, gilt leather labels. Wear to leather and edges, boards somewhat rubbed, front hinges tender. Contemporary ownership inscriptions and binder's tickets on front endpapers of second.....
New York: J.H. Colton, 1853. Folding map, 36 1/4 x 43 1/2 inches, with period hand-coloring. Original roan binding (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches), the covers elaborately blocked in blind, the upper cover titled in gilt "Map of / the Western / States / J.H. Colton," rebacked in cloth;.....
Sioux City, Ia. 1881. 392pp. plus 8pp. advertisements. Original cloth. Head of spine frayed, binding edgeworn and somewhat soiled. Ink inscription on front endpaper and rear pastedown. Good. A fairly early historical account of the development of the Dakota Territory, focusing on the valley of the Big Sioux River in.....
New York. 1868. 336pp. Original cloth. Cloth worn, sunned and bit bubbled. Internally very good. The author was much involved in politics and journalism throughout Iowa in the 1850s and '60s. Many pungent and forceful opinions are expressed.
Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait, 1849. 21 1/2 x 29 inches, folded into 12mo. contemporary cloth folder, gilt- lettered cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Two minor tears in from left edge along folds, one three-inch tear also in from left edge; additional small separations at intersections. Occasional faint soiling. Printed color bright and.....
Bloomfield, Ia. Republican Steam Print, 1883. 144pp. Original green cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine. Fine. Though there are varying stories as to the source of Davis County's nickname, "The Hairy Nation," almost all stem from the wide reputation that its earliest settlers were rough, unkempt men. This is a history.....
[ 1856-1857]. 48pp. typescript, typed on recto. Large quarto. Wrappers, bradbound, title typed on front wrapper. Wrappers a bit sunned, but overall very good. Typed transcription of Fickes' diary from the middle of the 19th century. Fickes was a married woman with three young sons when she started her diary.....
[Washington. 1854]. Thirty-seven (of forty-four) maps, plans, and views. Contemporary calf, red and black gilt morocco labels. Internally clean. Very good. An exhaustive collection of congressional documents, including many maps from President Pierce's message to Congress. The documents range in subject matter from survey maps of Arkansas, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan.....
Sioux City, Ia. 1924. 150pp. Portraits. Illus. Printed wrappers. Wraps bit chipped, but very good. The first section is an account of the establishment of the overland wagon route from Sioux City to the gold fields of Montana, with a detailed account of the Sawyer Expedition's journey to inspect the.....
[Washington. 1854]. 7pp. Printed on blue paper. Folio, stitched as issued. First gathering separating. Small tear to titlepage, not affecting the text. Light soiling to outer leaves, edges tanned. Internally very clean. Very good. Concluded May 17, 1854, proclaimed July 17, 1854. This treaty was made at the city of.....
Iowa City: A.H. Palmer, 1847. xiv,260pp. Modern grey cloth, gilt spine labels. Ex-library, with ink stamp and ownership inscription on titlepage. Heavily trimmed. About good. Laws of the first meeting of the Iowa legislature after statehood. Also with a copy of the state constitution, and indices to both. OCLC reports.....
Iowa City: Palmer & Paul, 1849. 235,[1]pp. Modern grey cloth, spine gilt labels. Ex-library, with ink stamp and ownership inscription on titlepage. Minor ink staining on fore edge, otherwise very good. Report of the laws and resolutions passed by the Iowa General Assembly during the early period of its statehood.....
Iowa City: Printed by Hughs & Williams, 1843. viii,904pp. 20th-century tan cloth, gilt leather labels. Minor chipping to labels, minor wear and soiling to binding. Contemporary ownership inscription and later library ink stamp on titlepage. Light foxing, some marginal soiling, a few pencil notations in text. Good. An extensive revision.....
Davenport: Luse, Lane & Co., 1857. Two volumes. [2],ii,644; xx,[1],[645]-1096,103pp. 20th-century tan cloth, gilt leather labels, paper label at foot of spines. Ink stamps on titlepages. Internally clean. Good. The third of Iowa's constitutional conventions, these proceedings for 1857 formed the basis for the constitution which is still in use.....
[Keosauqua, Ia.]: Keosauqua Republican, 1905]. 11pp. Self-wrappers. Slight wear, heavy crease down center where previously folded. Very good. With a history of the Van Buren County Court House laid in. The murder took place in 1844. The evidence against McCauley was hard to beat: an affadavit signed by the dying.....
Des Moines: Miles & Company, 1869. 254pp. plus folding map. Frontis. Original brown cloth boards, spine gilt. Neatly rebacked, with original backstrip laid down. Edges and corners somewhat worn, folding map split into two pieces along fold. Internally quite clean. Good plus. With many unique contemporary advertisements. Compiled by J.J......
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1901. Large folding color map, 33 x 45 inches. In original cloth folder. A few minor tears at folds, else very good. Handsome and quite large folding pocket map of Iowa. Detailing the counties, railroads, etc.
Dubuque: Nonpareil Job Printing and Publishing House, 1858. 40pp. Two frontispieces plus in-text illustrations. Modern half morocco and cloth, original rear wrapper bound in. Head of spine chipped. Leaves tanned. Small cancelled library stamp on verso of titlepage. Else quite good. One of several versions of this pamphlet, all issued.....
Dubuque: Nonpareil Job Printing and Publishing House, 1858. 40pp. Two frontispieces and an in-text illustration. Original printed yellow wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled. Bookplate on verso of front wrapper. Foxing. Good. Denoted the "second edition" on the front wrapper, one of several versions of this pamphlet, all issued in 1858.....
[Des Moines]: Historical Department of Iowa, 1900. iv,634pp. Modern black cloth, spine gilt. Ex-library, with ink stamp on titlepage. Contemporary ownership inscription and stamp on front flyleaf. Lightly tanned, otherwise very good. A collection of the laws passed in Iowa Territory in the first legislative session after its organization in.....